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Topic: very worried (Read 3171 times)

is it possible to get infected with hiv if one has hemmoriods and sat on wet blood? I had an incident wherre i sat on a spot of wet blood. i thought it was a damaged toilet seat and put a seat cover on it. when i stood up the blood had gone through the toilet seat cover. now i am panicking and wonder if i should be tested.

HIV is a very fragile and difficult to transmit virus OUTSIDE the human body. In the situation you described you have no idea how long the blood was there, if its human blood, if its infected human blood or if it got anywhere near your "situation". As far as it being on the toilet seat and you having hemmoroids, last I checked hemmoroids were in the anus not on the but cheeks, so I dont see how the blood would even have the opportunity to get to them. I dont think you have a risk here at all.

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LIFE is not a race to the grave with the intention of arriving safelyin a pretty and well-preserved body, but, rather to skid in broadside,thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW! WHAT ARIDE!!!

it was human blood. i am assuming the young lady before me was menstruating. i was in a coffee shop and could not hold it and the male restroom was taken. i stepped in the second she vacated the rest room. i have bleeding hemoriods as a result of meds for acid reflux that i am taking.

Again you are assuming alot. You would have to be COVERED with menstral blood for this to even be a MINIMAL risk situation. And I still dont see how the blood on the toilet seat makes it anywhere near your anus. You have no risk.

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LIFE is not a race to the grave with the intention of arriving safelyin a pretty and well-preserved body, but, rather to skid in broadside,thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW! WHAT ARIDE!!!

So the fear of knowing is paralyzing. The fear of not knowing apparently is paralyzing also. What should you do? Only one of those options even allows for itself to be proved false. If you test you can at least remove the fear, if you do not, the fear stays.

But I should also say, YOU DONT HAVE IT! You had no risk based on what you described. There should be no fear either way! Please see the Welcome Thread at the top of this forum and brush up on the TRANSMISSION section to find out just how difficult this virus is to get.

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LIFE is not a race to the grave with the intention of arriving safelyin a pretty and well-preserved body, but, rather to skid in broadside,thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming--WOW! WHAT ARIDE!!!

Your mind may continue to scare you about this incident. However, there's absolutely no basis in HIV science on which to ground any real concern about HIV transmission here.

It's really just a bunch of WHAT IFs which your head is pasting together and all to no good purpose. WHAT IF there was HIV+ blood on the toilet seat and WHAT IF the HIV was therein was still viable anD WHAT IF the blood not only touched your anus and actually got into your body and into your bloodstream.

If HIV was transmittable in this kind of situation we would have known it long before today. HIV is in fact a fragile virus and not easy to transmit. There's no need for testing because you were never at risk.

The real question is why your mind is unwilling to let go of this concern. And please don't come back with more so-called "rational" ideas about that. That won't fly here because we know what's a risk and what isn't. What you need to do is give some thought and perhaps get some professional help to understand why you're hanging on to this situation when it's totally unwarranted. Really.